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I've noticed many cookers recommending a hard reset of your Diamond after a new rom install, but yet it didn't seem to be documented anywhere that I could find.
I've added it to the Diamond Wiki for anyone interested:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Diamond_HardReset
It probably says this in the manual - I wouldn't know.. Like many ppl here, I've never read it.
Anyway.. hope it helps some of you!
Or u can do clearstorage
I think do clearstorage is easier. It does the same thing. u can find this under settings
HaiLe512 said:
I think do clearstorage is easier. It does the same thing. u can find this under settings
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Does that also remove everything on the 4GB storage drive too? I'm not game to try!!!!
I've never used Clear Storage for the same reason - it seems to imply that it will format your storage card too.
A Hard Reset definitely does NOT format your storage card.
The psShutXP has a hard reset button. It does the same thing do right?
I've always wondered, does NAND memory refer to the 4gb internal memory?
Pressing 'Clear Storage' in the settings will give you 3 options:
1) Clear storage only
2) Format internal storage only
3) Clear storage and format internal storage
The first option is equivalent to hard resetting.
a little confused...
isn't the final step of flashing a new rom an automatic hard reset anyway? It always has been for me. Is the advice to then perform a further hard reset once the 'preparing to use device for first time' screen has disappeared?
No, sometimes ROM flashing made by cookers will not clear every old thing. It's not always and not necessary for a hard-reset afaik.
Only those old methods of ROM flashing via pdocread/write mode requires hard-reset a must.
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Carty..
hard reset after flash?
some cooks say do....some don't
so i always do it only the the chef states so
The thing is..when do we actually perform the hard reset.
Do we do it 'immediately' after a succesful ROM flash or do we wait until the device fully initialises and load up the TF3D plugin..or in between?
I asked the same Question (When to do the hard reset) in another thread. The consensus seemed to be at the "Tap screen to setup device" screen or whatever it is called - Just prior to doing the screen calibration.
As to whether it is actually required.... there is no real consensus. So I pretty much always do a single hard reset post flash. Working on the basis that there is nothing to lose but possibly a somehting to gain. Anecdotally - I seemingly have fewer post flash issues than some others who have not hard reset. But I am sure there will be plenty of people to tell you that this is BS.
What I find a little hard to cop, is the guys who hard reset 5 or even 10 times post flash in the belief that it will really "clean" up their device. But whatever floats your boat I guess. Like a single hard reset - 50 resets to get the device really "clean" cant do any harm. Why not do it 100 times just to be sure
I am currently running Wildberry and have had no issues with it whatsoever. Could be because I am just lucky or could be because I hard reset. Who knows.
As an aside the 'Clear Storage' applet is missing from Wildberry!
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I've always wondered, does NAND memory refer to the 4gb internal memory?
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Yes mate it does, and FYI: the 4GB chip is called a moviNAND chip and is made by Samsung. I understand that development of the Diamond was just a little too early to get the 8GB moviNAND which was released to production at the start of 2008. What a spew.
logger said:
I asked the same Question (When to do the hard reset) in another thread. The consensus seemed to be at the "Tap screen to setup device" screen or whatever it is called - Just prior to doing the screen calibration.
As to whether it is actually required.... there is no real consensus. So I pretty much always do a single hard reset post flash. Working on the basis that there is nothing to lose but possibly a somehting to gain. Anecdotally - I seemingly have fewer post flash issues than some others who have not hard reset. But I am sure there will be plenty of people to tell you that this is BS.
What I find a little hard to cop, is the guys who hard reset 5 or even 10 times post flash in the belief that it will really "clean" up their device. But whatever floats your boat I guess. Like a single hard reset - 50 resets to get the device really "clean" cant do any harm. Why not do it 100 times just to be sure
I am currently running Wildberry and have had no issues with it whatsoever. Could be because I am just lucky or could be because I hard reset. Who knows.
As an aside the 'Clear Storage' applet is missing from Wildberry!
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+1 !!
MrDerrickC said:
I've always wondered, does NAND memory refer to the 4gb internal memory?
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Well, JFYI, currently no windows mobile is using NOR based media. That leaves NAND flash. NOR is too expensive for the OEMs and manufactures to use in their devices.
Also, the RAM prices for mobile devices have come down a lot. So, it makes less sense to use NOR based flash media
I have never had to re-flash/hard reset swiftblads roms. Never ever. But ive did it with alot of other roms. duttys, panosha (trying his 2.0 now, and its pretty good), swatos and some other roms. I only do it, if i get some lag issues or if it freeze my screen. Normal it will fix the issues.
Unless, its a bug in the rom. But as some says, it doesnt hurt to make a hard-reset.
Thanks Mate !!!
Hard Rest after Flash new ROM,nothing will change..same same ! i guess no need!
and if u do it,u will delete all the programs on Internal Storage !
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23983384
Could this script be ported over? I'm not a dev by any means but I'd like this.
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It's not your butt. Wiping more than once doesn't do anything. Though, if someone can get me proof of a repeatable error that is only solved by wiping more than once before installing a ROM, I'll admit I'm wrong. As of right now, it's voodoo quackery from the people that insisted battery cache wiping was the sure way to double your battery life.
To clarify, this is distinct from wiping, flashing the ROM, and wiping again and re flashing the same ROM. Bad flashes seem to happen to me 10% of the time.
Just seems useful I personally wipe 2-3 times before a flash just to be safe. I've had bad flashes before I did haven't since.
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There is no possible thing that would change from wiping it once to wiping it 1000 times. A wipe wipes the data. Then it's gone. Wiping it again just wipes nothing. Remnants don't get left behind or anything. Have you ever tried deleting something twice? Same concept....
Peter
Its the same concept of a bad flash. You flash and have problems, yet re-wipe and flash again and it works fine. Sometimes when you do a wipe, for some reason or another every file doesnt get wiped. Its rare but it does happen. Wiping twice before flashing or just a safer practice. Sure if the file gets deleted, it cant be deleted again. But the issue at hand is that the file doesnt always get deleted. I used to sometimes have a bad flash with a ROM but ever since I started flashing twice before I install the ROM I havent had an issue. I dont think we get a bad flash because the ROM flashed bad, we get a bad flash cause files didnt get wiped and are left over from the old stuff.
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Its the same concept of a bad flash. You flash and have problems, yet re-wipe and flash again and it works fine. Sometimes when you do a wipe, for some reason or another every file doesnt get wiped. Its rare but it does happen. Wiping twice before flashing or just a safer practice. Sure if the file gets deleted, it cant be deleted again. But the issue at hand is that the file doesnt always get deleted. I used to sometimes have a bad flash with a ROM but ever since I started flashing twice before I install the ROM I havent had an issue. I dont think we get a bad flash because the ROM flashed bad, we get a bad flash cause files didnt get wiped and are left over from the old stuff.
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Can you quantify this in any manner at all? Have you checked the partition to see what was left behind the first time and not the second? What was the file?
Out of curiosity, someone with a bit more android storage knowledge than me might be able to answer. Does wiping on android just 'uncatalogued' as most computer systems do and allow it to be written over, or is it an actually 'replace with 0'? Just kinda curious for my own knowledge.
ROM][JB] Sense™ 5 look-and-feel [UPDATED: 28-03-2013][BUGFREE][STABLE]
Above rom is very good, only minor problems, such as:
About everyday is gets into a loop that can only be solved by removing the battery. In that loop it drains the battery very fast.
Can this be solved?
Man please reinstall it with clean install (wiping all, EXCEPT SD-CARD)
so and please dont spam around, just write to djoliver or make a reply in his thread!
Sorry if this is considere span, but...
NikSalsa said:
Man please reinstall it with clean install (wiping all, EXCEPT SD-CARD)
so and please dont spam around, just write to djoliver or make a reply in his thread!
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Sorry if this is considere span, but I am a noob in this.
I tried to write to djolivier, but with mij account I am not allowed to do that. I think I need more then 10 posts to do that (this is one of them)
ratjet03 said:
Sorry if this is considere span, but I am a noob in this.
I tried to write to djolivier, but with mij account I am not allowed to do that. I think I need more then 10 posts to do that (this is one of them)
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Check this I am not sure if this is a CWM issue or not.
I have had the same issue with marvelous CM7. Do one thing. Format the SD card first. Then copy the Rom zip file to SD and start in recovery mode. (So that any backups or something in the SD card will be erased). Also, After clearing dalvik cache and all, before installing the ROM, power down the phone using the option in CWM. Once powered down, remove the battery, put it back and then manually go to recovery(power button+ Vol keys). Do the wipes and all and try installing the ROM again. Once this is booted up properly , check if you are getting any so-called loops
Hey guys, ill provide a little backstory first. when 4.2 came out, i upgraded my rom (PA) from 4.1.2 to 4.2.1 but i forgot to update my clockwork mod first so when i installed 4.2, it created a partition on my phone. so now there is storage only accesible when im on 4.2 and when im on 4.1 when all of this happened, my phone turned into a lag demon, it crawls around now to the point where doing simple tasks is near impossible. trying to make a nandroid abckup takes 45 minutes before i give up and do a battery pull so my question is
tl;dr what can i do to my phone to speed it up so i can make a nandroid backup,
what did i do wrong?,
how can i fix it?
and how can i COMPLETELY wipe my storage and start brand new? factory reset doesnt do enough i mean i want it be WIPED.
thanks for the help in advance guys
What is all this partitioning crap people are doing to their phones? Perhaps people shouldnt be messing with that. Anyway, maybe you should look into how to return your phone to stock with a factory image. Search for it.
but that wouldnt solve my problem of my phone being a slow piece of **** and two it wouldnt wipe my phone
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but that wouldnt solve my problem of my phone being a slow piece of **** and two it wouldnt wipe my phone
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maybe you should read the return to stock thread instead of complaining.
apparently fastboot erase userdata doesnt wipe the phone according to your reasoning
I believe it does wipe your phone. I'm not talking about a simple factory reset. I'm talking about flashing the stock image to your phone using your computer. It completely wipes everything and puts it back to stock.
Hold on, I'll link you to it.
EDIT: In case it wasn't obvious, I took the link from Zepius signature.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1626895
oh man thanks for that link that should help me a lot. another question is how do i perform an adb pull for full storage and/or select files?
Hi forum
I'm a complete newbie to this, in fact I've never done more than install an app on my Galaxy W until last week.
I have now rooted the phone (is that the right term?) and am running android 4.4.2
It's pretty stable but I have a couple of issues that I wonder if anyone has experienced....
Please forgive me if this is the wrong section but there's a nasty warning about posting in the developers bit!
issue 1 is that I am unable to answer calls.... the phone rings, the back and menu buttons light up but the screen doesn't illuminate or allow me to swipe to answer... if I know the call's coming and hold the phone with no screenlock on then I can answer fine.
The other issue is that's it's very very slow... this is probably just down to a lack of RAM but any experience to make it run quicker would bbe appreciated.
Alternatively, should I downgrade to 4.2.2?
derekmines said:
Hi forum
I'm a complete newbie to this, in fact I've never done more than install an app on my Galaxy W until last week.
I have now rooted the phone (is that the right term?) and am running android 4.4.2
It's pretty stable but I have a couple of issues that I wonder if anyone has experienced....
Please forgive me if this is the wrong section but there's a nasty warning about posting in the developers bit!
issue 1 is that I am unable to answer calls.... the phone rings, the back and menu buttons light up but the screen doesn't illuminate or allow me to swipe to answer... if I know the call's coming and hold the phone with no screenlock on then I can answer fine.
The other issue is that's it's very very slow... this is probably just down to a lack of RAM but any experience to make it run quicker would bbe appreciated.
Alternatively, should I downgrade to 4.2.2?
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did you make clean install? if not please re-flash the rom via clean install
-wipe data/factory reset
-format system
-format sdcard0(default)
sir mordred said:
did you make clean install? if not please re-flash the rom via clean install
-wipe data/factory reset
-format system
-format sdcard0(default)
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Hi
I did make a clean install.... I followed a step by step guide on the trueandroid site (I can't post a link as i'm new here)
it noted full backup, clockwork mod, data wipe, dalvik wipe.
Everything worked exactly as they said.
derekmines said:
Hi
I did make a clean install.... I followed a step by step guide on the trueandroid site (I can't post a link as i'm new here)
it noted full backup, clockwork mod, data wipe, dalvik wipe.
Everything worked exactly as they said.
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I'll send youa good working configuration 4.4.2 via pm
1st pm = downloadlinks
2nd pm = guide